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Republican presidential candidates talked up aggressive tax-cut plans on Tuesday night but offered few details about how they would avoid plunging the nation deeper into debt from the multi-trillion-dollar revenue shortfalls that would follow....

The hosts of Fox News’ Outnumbered reacted with indignation on Wednesday after students at the University of Missouri were asked to report “hateful or hurtful speech.” Amid reports of threats on social media against black...

More than two decades have passed since Ardell Shaw was imprisoned in a King County juvenile detention facility. But the memories of the musty air, the harsh winter cold, and the sludge in the facility’s basement are ever present—as is the...

A Michigan wrestling coach who previously faked cancer to raise money has now been accused of sexually assaulting a child. Zack Jones, 21, a volunteer coach at a middle school in Howell was charged with raping a 13-year-old boy between June and...

A Michigan mayor brushed off desperate residents who are making a last-ditch effort to keep their homes by leaving a public meeting for a pizza party. Randy Walker, mayor of Garden City, walked out of a swearing-in session without taking public...

GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson on Wednesday seemed to give contradicting statements when he said it was very easy to mislead uneducated people into thinking that providing college education was a good thing. The remarks, made at Liberty...

Country singer Steve Grand has fulfilled his promise to attend the 2015 Marine Corps Ball with a marine who asked him to be his date via YouTube in September. Tanner White chose to ask Grand to the ball because he is a fan of his music and...

Megachurch Pastor Steven Furtick is used to questions about his gigantic mansion and other trappings of his apparent wealth — but he doesn’t usually face them directly from reporters. The pastor of North Carolina’s Elevation...

An elected official in Dallas, Oregon doubled down this week after posting a Facebook rant declaring that Islam was “pure evil” and comparing Muslims to Hitler. In a Nov. 7 Facebook post, Dallas City Council member Micky Garus said...

A conservative Missouri lawmaker is trying to stop a graduate student from researching the effects that state’s mandated 72-hour waiting period for an abortion is having on women, the Huffington Post reports. State Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R)...

It’s a rare and precious thing when a documentary changes some small part of the world for the better. And such rarity tells us a great deal about how heavily are the odds usually stacked against documentary – not just as a campaigning tool for...

A former Sacramento police officer convicted of raping a 75-year-old stroke victim in her senior living apartment has been sentenced to life in prison, court records show. Prosecutors said Gary Dale Baker, 52, entered the woman’s apartment...

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz stole the spotlight on social media from the front-runners during a televised GOP debate on Tuesday night, drawing attention and getting positive reviews. The U.S. senator from Texas, considered a...

Donald Trump hit back against his Republican rivals who called his plan to deport 11 million people “silly” and unrealistic. Trump appeared Wednesday morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to defend his proposal, which he...

A Michigan school district said this week that it would not ban a book with a gay character after another school district in the state removed it from book fair shelves. Late last month, Monroe Public Schools said that it had removed “Captain...